Jan 26, 2021
There is growing evidence that the respiratory tract and gut microbiotas can help regulate the body’s response to invading respiratory viruses, while in a similar fashion, invading respiratory viruses can induce immune responses that alter the composition of the...
Jan 26, 2021
The team of biologists from different CAS departments used the CRISPR/Cas9 method to screen thousands of genes for those which were particularly strong drivers of cellular senescence, the term used to describe cellular ageing.They identified 100 genes out of around...
Jan 26, 2021
Individual variations in how the immune system responds to SARS-CoV-2 appear to impact the severity of disease. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now been able to show that patients with severe COVID-19 have significantly elevated levels of a certain...
Jan 21, 2021
A new study suggests someone might be able to get infected with one of the new variants of the coronavirus even if they’ve had Covid-19 before or have been vaccinated.The variant was first spotted in South Africa in October and has now been found in more than a...
Jan 15, 2021
Now, a team of researchers at the Max Planck-Bristol Center for Minimal Biology and Bristol’s School of Biochemistry has identified a druggable pocket in the virus’s spike protein that can be used to prevent the infection of cells. The study findings,...
Jan 15, 2021
Use of the diabetes drug metformin—before a diagnosis of COVID-19—is associated with a threefold decrease in mortality in COVID-19 patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to a racially diverse study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Diabetes is a...
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